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Originally Posted by Imp

Quite possibly Recon should be trimmed back or ignored completly they are doing just that. If they get caught in a fight quite likely to be seperate from the main force.
I may well be wrong here as a civillian but true recon is a seperate thing I think of the scouts we use in game as a squad trained to split & cover more ground.
More scouting for contact than true Recon who probably gave you the local & are now trying to figure out force makeup etc.
So thinking is might have left a few behind to keep an eye on but the rest have moved on.

That's most likely true, but since we're doing a mini-version of the entire war, I'll give both sides Recon, and let the leaders decide what to do with them. However, I will only give each side a single Recon Co, so they won't be able to affect the battle in a major way, and it's very feasible that 1 Recon Co for each side made it to Tskhinvali.

The Russians employed 2 Recon Battalions and 5 Recon Companies. Since this is a mini-map, I will simply use 1 Recon company to represent that. The Recon Company has 115 men, 4 BMP-2, 4 BRM-1K, 1BMP-1KSh, 1 R-145BM (or command vehicle) and 2 BTR-80.

HQ + Command vehicle - 8 men
1st Platoon - 6 units * 3 men on 2 BMP-2
2nd Platoon - 6 units * 3 men on 2 BMP-2
3rd Platoon - 6 units * 3 men on 2 BTR-80 (with AA Guns)
4 BRM-1K - 24 men
Support units - 25 men, BMP-1KSh

Good website for BRM-1K Specs, although I think they're already in our ORBATs. http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product3360.html


For the Georgians, they had 4 Recon Co. of 101 men and 8 BTR-80, as well as a Recon Battalion of 1070 men. However most of the Recon Battalion units were manned by local militias. Taking into account what Imp suggested earlier, I propose giving the Georgians a single Recon Co of 101 men and 8 BTR-80. I am fairly sure that they also scout vehicles.

HQ + Command Vehicle - 8 men
1st Platoon - 4 units of 4 men + 2 BTR-80
2nd Platoon - 4 units of 4 men + 2 BTR-80
3rd Platoon - 4 units of 4 men + 2 BTR-80
4th Platoon - 4 units of 4 men + 2 BTR-80
Support units - 13 men (med + supply)

Originally Posted by wulfir

Ah OK, so the Focal Point will be Tskhinvali itself...

Will there be any objectives outside the urban area?

The task of the Georgians was to capture the city, the task of the Russians was to liberate it. On the one hand, I was tempted to say that there were some objectives outside of the city, such as the surrounding heights. But upon a closer examination of the map, I found that it was mostly flat. There were no objectives outside the city, except for those of military necessity, but I'm not finding any. If you are - let me know, and we can take a look, and get advice from the WinSPMBT community if the objectives are valuable enough. The main objective should definetely be the Capitol Building, Ossetia's "White House" if you will, where some of the government was still located when the fighting began.

Just think of it as a mini-Stalingrad.